Mike Donovan

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@omgsidewalks Dude -- I have fresh fruit and veg, soft grass and blue skies today. All veg is from my garden.

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@WallStreetApes Lake Anna was created to accomplish one thing -- cool the two nuclear reactors. All of the houses surrounding the lake followed, which adversely affects the water quality far beyond a data center or the power plant.

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD!

Tom Mueller. SpaceX employee #1, the man who built the engines and his 0.06% stake is now worth approximately $1.11 billion (Save this).

But the number undersells the story.

Mueller grew up in St. Maries, Idaho, population 2,500, the son of a logger who wanted him to follow the same path.

He spent four summers cutting timber to pay his way through engineering school, then moved to California with nothing but a degree and a passion for rockets.

He spent 15 years at TRW, one of the biggest aerospace companies in the world, watching his ideas get diluted inside a bureaucracy so he started building engines in his garage at night as a hobby.

By early 2002 he had built the largest amateur liquid-fuel rocket engine in the world, 80 pounds, 13,000 lbs of thrust and moved it to a friend's warehouse.

That's where @elonmusk found him.

Fresh from selling PayPal for $1.5 billion, Musk walked into that warehouse and asked one question: "Can you build something bigger?"

Mueller never fired that original engine, he took it back to his garage, where it still sits today.

Instead, he joined Musk on May 1, 2002 becoming employee #1 on the SpaceX payroll.

What followed was 18 years of building what became the most reliable rocket engine ever flown.

The Merlin engine, designed from scratch powered Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Dragon.

The Merlin 1D holds the thrust to weight record for production rocket engines and it enabled the first ever propulsive landing of an orbital rocket booster, which is what made reusability possible, which is what made cheap access to space possible, which is what made Starlink possible, which is what made today's $2.1 trillion IPO possible.

Mueller also started the early development of what became the Raptor engine, the full flow staged combustion methane engine that powers Starship, which no American aerospace company had ever successfully built before.

He retired from SpaceX in November 2020 but he got bored within six months so he founded Impulse Space, building space tugs to move payloads around once they're in orbit, and planetary landers to deliver cargo to Mars.

What an incredible story!

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@DMVAdventures Impossible to keep organic matter out of the pool. Only a massive infusion of chlorine will stem the green. Replace the pool with pond-less waterfalls and plants for stunning visual appeal and minimal maintenance.

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@NickMinock @SenLouiseLucas @DelegateTorian Why would politicians in Loudoun, Fairfax, or Prince William agree to share the 10s of millions with the state? With the massive data center farms under construction in Stafford, Spotsylvania, and King George, they will vote against this "share the wealth deal" as well.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

It's OK to love America.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Indeed 😂

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Australia banned X for children but not BlueSky.

Britain is banning X for children but not BlueSky.

This proves one thing.

It's not about protecting children.

It's about censorship and controlling the narrative.

[PNW Conservative @PNWConservative]

Yeah, Trump is making a mockery of the White House.

Biden Christmas 👇

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@DarrigoMelanie 66% of these cities are in CA, NY, and NJ. First time buyers have the vast majority of America to search for an affordable home.

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@ewarren Trump donates his government salary to charity.

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@TRUMP_ARMY_ Ole Hil looks like she needs an oxygen inhaler. Low O2 destroys brain cells.

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@Justanotherlake @JJ65910824 @courtsomer @bling_momma And she attempted to get in a debate about tax policy with me. I enjoy using Supergrok to nullify falsehoods. Go Elon!

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@bluebirdpoopies Self-satisfaction of an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Some folks still care about the rules.

[Mike Donovan @ridgetop111]

@libsoftiktok Notice the cancer-causing paint on its fingernails.

[Del. Wren M. Williams @WrenWilliamsVA]

Next time you hear @vademocrats claim Trump is cutting funding, remember how they just looted @GlennYoungkin’s $900M rainy day fund to pay for their new #affordability agenda. They’ve spent Youngkin’s $2.1B surplus. Now they’re spending next year’s Q1 and Q2 surplus too.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Jillian Michaels: "What I find so funny is that Obama — who shamed all of the black men for not voting for Harris — then went to Virginia and campaigned against the black woman who’s a Marine … for a white liberal who worked for the CIA."

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

BOOM 💥

Ilhan Omar is so p'issed that Brandon Gill filed a petition to have her deported, she reportedly got in his face and cussed him out

Gill stood his ground & said " do you kiss your brother with that mouth "

Hit that like button if you want Gill to be the next Speaker

[淘淘 @taotaofine]

我的偶像郭璨 27 岁，SpaceX 任务控制室核心工程师，火箭发动机参数实时监测她说了算，异常时直接下中止指令

最离谱的是，她 20 多岁写的代码还在优化发射控制逻辑，把流程自动化提了一大截

结果一查工资，年薪现金才 13 万美元，硅谷白菜价

但人家持股 8–15 万股，按 135 刀 IPO 价算，身价直接干到 1500 万刀

之前纪录片里那个“花臂+吊带”出圈的，就是她

难怪网友喊她星舰女王，这履历放硅谷随便哪家都是抢着要，她偏选 SpaceX 硬卷

偶像，实力真是藏不住的